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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | February 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Florida man strikes again:

A Clearwater amateur boxer who is already facing a rape charge in connection with an incident last year has been charged with another rape — one that occurred inside a gym, arrest reports state.
William Walden, 34, was initially arrested [Jan. 27] in connection with a rape that occurred on Sept. 10 in the 700 block of N Saturn Avenue in Clearwater.
On Thursday, detectives lodged a second rape charge against him — this for an incident that occurred [Jan. 26], just a day before his arrest in the first case — at a gym in the 1700 block of N. Hercules Avenue, arrest reports state.
The reports state that a victim came to the gym for a pre-arranged meeting. Walden choked her until she lost consciousness, hit her in the head multiple times and knocked out one of her teeth. He dragged her to a secluded part of the gym and raped her, reports state.
He threatened the woman with future violence after the incident was over. The woman later underwent a victim exam that found physical evidence and injuries, reports state.
In a news release about Walden’s first arrest that Clearwater police put out earlier this week about Walden’s first arrest, investigators indicated they believed there may be other victims.
In the case from last year, police said Walden met the victim in the 1300 block of Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard and drove her to a parking lot off N Saturn Ave., police said. Then he dragged her from the vehicle, beat her and sexually assaulted her, according to police.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Walden was identified as the attacker through DNA, police said.
Walden has a lengthy criminal record that includes charges involving drugs, domestic battery and driving incidents.

Rape may not be Walden’s worst crime:

When Terri Oberle saw William Walden’s mugshot flash on the television screen, her heart sank.
Clearwater police arrested Walden [Jan. 27] and charged him in connection with a violent sexual assault that left the victim with so many injuries she was unable to move.
[Jan. 31], detectives charged him with an additional rape that took place at a Clearwater Gym.
For two months, Walden dated Oberle’s daughter, 24-year old Kaelin Rieger. Oberle found her daughter’s body floating in the backyard pool in September. She always felt Walden had something to do with it, although Largo Police detectives who investigated called the case closed with no indication of any foul play.
Rieger was known to do drugs. Investigators found evidence of drug use near the pool where her body was found. The medical examiner ruled the death was drug-related. But Oberle still believes to this day, there is more to this.
“Somebody’s not connecting the dots here, they’re not connecting the dots, my daughter’s dead, these girls are raped,” said Oberle, as she cried sitting behind photos of her daughter. “I’m broken-hearted. My daughter didn’t deserve this. She was so light-hearted. This guy’s evil.”

Two women raped, and the suspect’s ex-girlfriend “accidentally” drowned last year. But feminists don’t care, for some reason . . .

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)




 

Category: Violence Against Women

Wednesday: Have Democrats Finished Stealing Iowa From Bernie Sanders Yet?

Posted on | February 5, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Keep in mind that Bernie Sanders’ campaign had people in every precinct caucus in Iowa whose job was to get the voting numbers, so that when the state party HQ bungled the count Monday, the Sanders campaign was able to release its own tally, showing that Bernie had won. According to their numbers, Bernie got 29.66% of the final vote, and Pete Buttigieg was second with 24.59%; in the raw vote total, Bernie won by a margin of 4,012 out of 79,162 votes cast. But for some reason — perhaps massive fraud — the official Iowa Democrat count still has only 86% of precincts reporting and it’s Wednesday f***ing night!

Gosh, I wonder how this happened?

The app that was supposed to help the Iowa Democratic Party quickly report Monday’s caucus results – but contributed to confusion and a muddled result as campaigns were in an uproar – is linked to Hillary Clinton campaign veterans.
Shadow, a tech firm that describes itself as a group that creates “a permanent advantage for progressive campaigns and causes through technology,” is the company that created the Iowa Democratic Party’s app, according to The New York Times. At least the COO, CEO, CTO and a senior product manager at Shadow all worked for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, according to LinkedIn profiles.
Shadow is associated with ACRONYM, a nonprofit dedicated to “advancing progressive causes through innovative communications, advertising and organizing programs.” . . .
Groundbase co-founders Krista Davis, who is the current Shadow CTO, and Gerard Niemira, who is the current Shadow CEO, both held senior positions with the Clinton campaign. . . .
ACRONYM also has picked up funding from at least one dark money group. The New Venture Fund gave ACRONYM $250,000 in 2018 and is one of a number of nonprofit groups controlled by Arabella Advisors — a Washington-based philanthropy company. Both Araballa and New Venture Fund were founded by Eric Kessler, who worked in President Bill Clinton’s administration.

Let me get this straight: Clinton staffers, with funding from a “dark money group,” created the software that failed on Monday in Iowa, thus cheating Bernie Sanders out of a victory? Coincidence?

But wait — there’s more:

Acronym, the dark-money group behind the mobile app that derailed the news cycle by causing widespread delays in the Iowa caucus results, received funding from the political operations of Tom Steyer and Speaker of the House [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, financial records reveal. . . .
Acronym’s nonprofit arm—which does not disclose its funders—received $300,000 in donations in 2018 from the House Majority PAC, a Pelosi-affiliated committee that works to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives. That same year, Federal Election Commission records show, Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action Committee made a $45,000 donation to the nonprofit and paid another $90,000 for its data consulting services. . . .
Acronym’s PAC, Pacronym, was also a major beneficiary of wealthy Democrats’ funding. The committee received six-figure contributions from director Steven Spielberg, former actress Kate Capshaw, and liberal billionaire George Soros’s Democracy PAC in late 2019.

This is not a conspiracy theory, because they’re doing this in broad daylight. If you wanted to create software to perpetrate fraud against the Sanders campaign, who else would you have hired? Wait a minute, I think we just got video from Iowa Democratic Party headquarters . . .




 

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Election, Iowa

In The Mailbox: 02.05.20

Posted on | February 5, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #887
EBL: Congratulations To Rush Limbaugh, Awarded The Medal Of Freedom During SOTU
Twitchy: Mitt Romney Says He’ll Vote To Convict On Abuse Of Power Charges, And People Have Thoughts
Louder With Crowder: Was Pelosi Speaking To Her Imaginary Friend At The SOTU?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Living A Fearful Life
American Conservative: The Coup That Failed, or, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
American Greatness: Speaker Pelosi Gracelessly Rips Up Trump’s Speech After Masterful SOTU
American Thinker: If Ruth Bade Ginsburg Can Beat Cancer, So Must Rush
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Trump Calls Out Castro Regime During SOTU, Slams Obama’s Failed Cuba Policy
BattleSwarm: President Trump’s Home Run Derby
Cafe Hayek: “If I Were A Shill For Industry…”
Da Tech Guy: Kobe & The Media Mess, also, At SOTU, Trump Reminds Me Of Rayburn, O’Neill, & Why I’m No Longer a Democrat
Don Surber: Pelosi Hurt American Women
First Street Journal: One Thing To Like About The Bluegrass State
The Geller Report: Boris Admits “Really Very Few” Islamists Can Be Rehabilitated, also, Muslims Attack Police With Bricks At Turin Migrant Center
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, What’s Up For February 2020
Hollywood In Toto: This Brave Comedy Clip Stares Down Cancel Culture, also, Letterboxd Bans Black Libertarian Film Critic’s Reviews
Joe For America: What Omar, Pelosi, & Tlaib Did During The SOTU Was Disgusting
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In Iowa…
Legal Insurrection: Vulnerable Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) Will Vote To Convict Trump, also, Romney To Vote To Convict On Abuse of Power Charge
Megan McArdle: Sensible Democrats, Don’t Repeat Sensible Republicans’ 2016 Mistakes
Michelle Malkin: What Will It Take To Stop Google’s Kiddy Predators?
The PanAm Post: The Spanish Government’s Business Ties With The Maduro Regime, also, Trump Makes Juan Guaido’s Global Tour A Success
Power Line: A Great Night For Trump & The GOP, also, I Don’t Believe What I Just Saw
Shark Tank: Could Florida Save Millions With Solar Schools Proposal?
Shot In The Dark: Now It Can Vote
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Do It Yourself Tax Migration Stats
The Political Hat: The Wobbly-Furry Alliance
This Ain’t Hell: Matthew Rumple – Phony Silver Star, Phony Purple Heart, & Phony MSG, also, Acquitted!
Victory Girls: Nancy Pelosi’s Horrible, Terrible, Really Bad Day
Volokh Conspiracy: Podcast On The Blaine Amendment Case
Weasel Zippers: Watch Omar & Tlaib Refuse To Stand For Last Surviving Tuskegee Airman, also, Democrat Law Professor Calls On Pelosi To Resign
Mark Steyn: Gender-Bending Emojis, also, “The Greatest Fighter & Winner That You Will Ever Meet”

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Trump Acquitted, Romney Guilty

Posted on | February 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Trump Acquitted, Romney Guilty

 

Why the hell did any Republican ever vote for Mitt Romney? He is to the GOP what Carlo Rizzi was to the Corleone family. And after the Mormon rat sold out on the impeachment vote, I find myself feeling like Don Vito: “I never knew, until this day, that it was Barzini all along.”

Trump got acquitted on both counts in the Senate, an outcome that was never really in doubt, so that Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrat colleagues have wasted all this time for exactly nothing. Trump emerges triumphant — more popular than ever — and as for Mitt Romney . . .

According to web archives, top Mitt Romney adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who publicly goes by “Cofer Black,” joined Burisma’s board of directors while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board.
According to The New Yorker, Hunter joined Burisma’s board in April of 2014 and remained on it until he declined to renew his position this past May. Meanwhile, according to Burisma’s website, Black was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board. The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma, and indeed, web archives from late 2017 show Black and Biden listed simultaneously on the board.
Black joined the CIA in 1974 and eventually climbed the ranks to become director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism. He later worked at Blackwater as a vice chairman before joining Romney’s campaign as a “special adviser” on Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in October of 2011. In 2017, Black joined the board of Burisma. . . .

Up to his eyeballs in the Deep State coup machine, you see.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Senate

Nancy Pelosi Is Tearing Apart America

Posted on | February 5, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Everybody — and I do mean everybody — is talking this morning about Nancy Pelosi’s shocking gesture at the end of last night’s State of the Union Address, when she tore up the text of President Trump’s speech. It was rude and childish. My wife, a very polite Christian grandmother who generally doesn’t pay attention to politics, said of Pelosi’s tantrum: “How does she think this makes her look like the grown-up?”

President Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time high, the Democrats can’t even manage to count the votes in the Iowa caucus, yet Nancy Pelosi believes she can achieve . . . something, whatever was in her deranged mind, by ostentatiously disrespecting our Commander-in-Chief?

The speech itself was overwhelmingly positive and optimistic, full of patriotic sentiment, and insofar as Trump’s speech might have angered Democrats, the offense was a matter of policy, e.g., his criticism of “sanctuary city” laws and his advocacy of immigration limits. While one can understand that opponents of the president’s policy agenda would dislike hearing him advocate these policies from “the bully pulpit,” it did not deserve Pelosi’s disrespectful gesture. My hunch (and it is only a hunch) is that this was pre-meditated, something she had made up her mind to do before she ever saw a copy of the speech.

The net impact? Trump wins, Nancy loses.

“Whatever his faults and virtues,” says Stephen Green, “all magnified by his own boosterism and the press’s funhouse magnifying glass, Trump is unreservedly and unabashedly pro-American. A gung-ho patriot, delivering a gung-ho patriotic speech. Like running into an old friend after years and years apart, that’s something you maybe didn’t realize how much you missed until it was right there in front of you again.”

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Permit me to remind readers that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

Category: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi

Violence Against Women Update: Two Killed in Texas Campus Shooting

Posted on | February 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update: Two Killed in Texas Campus Shooting

 

Monday afternoon, there were reports that two people had been shot and killed on the Texas A&M-Commerce (TAMUC) campus, but police did not immediately release information about the suspect or the possible motive. Two women were reportedly killed in the Pride Rock dormitory for freshmen (TAMUC’s mascot is the Lions, thus the reference to “Pride Rock” from the movie The Lion King), and a two-year-old child was reported injured, and I was mystified by what could have happened. If a suspect was at large, wouldn’t police have identified the gunman? Was this perhaps a murder-suicide? By Tuesday afternoon, however, a suspect was in custody and details finally became public:

Deja Matts, 19, wanted to be a nurse. That’s why she was in college.
Her sister, 20-year-old Abbaney Matts, was her best friend.
The two died together in Deja’s door room Monday afternoon at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Abbaney’s 2-year-old son Allen was shot in the leg. He survived. . . .
Abbaney did not attend the college.
She drove her sister back to school after a big family get together over the weekend.
She and baby Allen were only going to spend one night there.
“They were just up here. My son had a birthday party and they were all up here and went back and all this happened,” said [their father, Timonthy] Matts.
Police did release a 911 call that was made by a student at the college saying there was a bullet hole in her dorm room.
“There is a hole through my wall and there on the other side is a nick in my calendar. It looks like someone shot through the wall and through the calendar.”
Police have arrested Abbaney’s ex-boyfriend 21-year-old Jacques Dshawn Smith. He has been charged with capital murder.

 

 

Do we or do we not care about violence against women?

Texas A&M University-Commerce police said 21-year-old Jacques Dshawn Smith is in custody and is believed to have fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, 20-year-old Abbaney Matts, along with her 19-year-old sister, freshman Deja Matts, and Deja’s 2-year-old son, inside the Pride Rock residence hall.
University police confirmed the arrest on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, saying witness tips and surveillance video led to the development of Smith as a suspect.
Rowlett SWAT, along with the Texas DPS and Texas Rangers, executed search and arrest warrants at Smith’s Rowlett home on Luna Road and took him into custody Tuesday afternoon.
NBC 5 has learned Smith was free on bond related to an alleged assault family violence incident that took place last week. The report was filed by Abbaney Matts, one of the shooting victims.
According to Garland police, Abbaney said Smith assaulted her Jan. 26 at a home on Bosque Drive with a frying pan, lamp and then pulled out a knife before leaving the residence. Though she was not hospitalized, Abbaney reported injuries to the right side of her head, her eyes and had red marks and abrasions after the alleged attack.
Smith was arrested and an emergency protective order was issued on Abbaney’s behalf. Smith was freed Jan. 29 after posting $15,000 bond.
NBC 5 has also learned Smith has a string of priors dating back four years with charges including evading arrest, theft and aggravated robbery.

This guy had been perpetrating crime his entire adult life. He was only 21 and yet had already been charged with at least four different crimes, so we must ask: Who posted his $15,000 bond after he assaulted the woman he eventually murdered? Why are obviously dangerous criminals being set free to commit more violence? And why aren’t feminists paying any attention to this atrocity? Oh, wait . . . intersectionality.




 

Category: Texas, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 02.04.20

Posted on | February 4, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.04.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Big Grocery Is Watching You
EBL: So WTH Happened At The Iowa Caucus?
Twitchy: Some Democrats Are Boycotting The SOTU, But Check Out The President’s List Of Guests
Louder With Crowder: MSDNC’s Chris Matthews Declares Trump The Winner Of Iowa’s Democrat Caucus
Minuteman Review: Gun Statistics (h/t Alex at Ammo.com)
Vox Popoli:  Complete Iowa Fail, also, The Necessity Of Debt Cancellation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Joy Of Skipping A Meal
American Conservative: Democrats Don’t Realize How Much Impeachment Hurts Them
American Greatness: The Hate America Project
American Power: Bernie Sanders Internal Numbers
American Thinker: Why The Left Really Wants To Kill America, also, Godspeed, Rush Limbaugh
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Relative Intelligence News
Babalu Blog: The Assault On Miami – The Castro Regime Continues Trying To Turn The City Into Their Hong Kong
BattleSwarm: Iowa Caucus Winners – Trump & Chaos
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
Camp Of The Saints: Joe “Hill” Biden Went Up The Hill – And May Have Fallen Off It
CDR Salamander: Is Lucy Teeing Up The Ball For Charlie Brown Again?
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – On Reading & Education, also, Five Iowa Caucus Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Killing Iowa To Save Biden
First Street Journal: It Must Have Killed The WaPo Editors To Report This
The Geller Report: Paris Metro Passengers Stop Muslim Mob From Attacking Jewish Man, also, How Iran’s Women Are Using Their Hijabs To Fight The Islamist Regime
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Gloat Is The New Pounce
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood’s Cultural Brainwashing Explained, also, Chuck Dixon & Sly Stallone Send Expendables To Hell
Joe For America: Ilhan Omar’s Dirty Money Hustle Blows Wide Open
JustOneMinute: State Of The Union
Legal Insurrection: Tulsi Gabbard Sends “Love & Best Wishes” To Rush Limbaugh, also, Chris Wallace – “Democrats Can’t Even Organize A Three-Car Funeral”
Megan McArdle: What Broke Iowa Is Bigger Than Iowa
Michelle Malkin: 
The PanAm Post: Spain’s Tarmac Diplomacy May Be Sleazier Than It Looks, also, Mexico’s Lopez Obrador To Raffle Off Presidential Jet
Power Line: Impeach This – Trump Popularity Surges After Winning Iowa Caucus, also, Tom Perez Looks Back
Shark Tank: Pro-LGBTQ Florida Legislators Oppose School Choice For Queer, Minority Students
Shot In The Dark: This Should Bring Out The Left’s Psycho Ghouls
STUMP: 2020 Project – Digging Through Connecticut Pensions
This Ain’t Hell: Warren Reiten – Vietnam War “Times” Veteran, also, Dude, Let’s Bern One!
Victory Girls: Hillary Alumni Fingerprints All Over Iowa Debacle 
Volokh Conspiracy: Who Is Hispanic, By Law?
Weasel Zippers: Schiff Claims Trump Could Trade Alaska To Russia For Support If Not Removed, also, CNN Reporting Biden May Go To Court To Halt Release Of Iowa Results
Mark Steyn: Submission Is The Better Part Of Valor, also, Rooting For Rush

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Disaster in Iowa: The Democratic Party Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | February 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Disaster in Iowa: The Democratic Party Is Decadent and Depraved

 

Last night’s dumpster fire in Iowa, caused by “technical difficulties,” kept me awake past midnight waiting for a result that never came, and I got up this morning and finally filed the story:

The way Democrats run their Iowa caucuses is difficult to explain briefly, but the result Monday was clear. Within an hour of the beginning of the complicated process, the totals of the first-round voting began to be reported via social media, and from precinct after precinct came the same phrase: “Biden — not viable.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden has based his campaign on the argument that he’s the most “electable” Democratic candidate, but the voters of Iowa shot a torpedo through the hull of that argument. Due to a technical glitch that delayed the state Democratic Party’s counting process, we still don’t have official results. But by 10:30 p.m. Eastern time Monday, it became apparent to caucus-watchers that Biden was headed for a fourth-place finish in the Hawkeye State, behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Buttigieg’s strong second-place showing is a big story — the young mayor out-performed expectations — but Biden’s humiliating defeat is much bigger. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Ace highlights how the #NeverTrump crowd at The Bulwark are in mourning from last night’s Iowa disaster, while conservatives are happy. Speaking of conservatives, my friend Cynthia Yockey caucused for Trump last night. Yes, there was a Republican caucus in Iowa, which Trump obviously won. Cynthia reports that (a) she was drafted to be a delegate to the county GOP convention in March, (b) elected to the platform committee, (c) her plank on transgender issues was unanimously adopted, and (d) “the passionate nominating speech for Trump that opened our caucus was given by an immigrant from India who became a citizen in 2008.”




 

Category: Election, Iowa, Joe Biden
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